The GOP opposed the proposal, written by Democrats, in part because they were blocked by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., from offering amendments, including an attempt by Sessions to prohibit President Barack Obama from issuing a new executive order Sessions has labeled “administrative amnesty.”

Republicans also opposed it because it did not change a 2008 trafficking law to expedite deportations of child migrants.

The bill also included $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system and $615 million for wildfire suppression.